International Support for Tibet and Tibetan People

The US Senate passed a resolution on 08 July 2015 wishing His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama a happy 80th birthday on July 6, 2015, and recognizing the outstanding contributions His Holiness has made to the promotion of nonviolence, human rights, interfaith dialogue, environmental awareness, and democracy. The resolution was sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein and introduced on 11 June 2015. More

The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tibet on 08 July 2015 calling for substantive dialogue, without preconditions, in order to address Tibetan grievances and secure a negotiated agreement for the Tibetan people. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Eliot L. Engel and introduced on 24 June 2015. The resolution: Calls on the U.S. More

DHARAMSHALA: The Special Committee on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights of the Italian Senate has adopted a resolution on Tibet. The resolution came against the backdrop of a testimony by Kalon Dicki Chhoyang of the Central Tibetan Administration's Department of Information and International Relations, at the Italian Senate last December. More

DHARAMSHALA: Members of Parliament from three major political parties of Canada - the New Democratic Party, Liberal Party, and Conservative Party - have urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Tibet a priority More

Senator Robert Menendez, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey and the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee made a statement on the situation in Tibet in the U.S. Senate on March 18, 2013. More

Felix BRAZ Parliamentary group Déi gréng MOTION The Chamber of Deputies, seeing the consistent position of the Luxembourg Government, anxious to respect the territorial integrity of People’s Republic of China but also the protection of respect for human rights, highlighted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, March 5, 2012, in front of the Commission of Foreign and European Affairs, Defense, Co More

DHARAMSHALA: Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have written to President Obama asking that the “United States take a leading role and engage actively with partner nations on measures that could bring near-term improvements in the human rights situation in Tibet. More

18 December 2012 Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire has said that the UK has serious concerns about the self-immolations in Tibetan regions. Following a European Union statement on self-immolations in Tibet, Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire said: “We strongly support the recent statement from Baroness Ashton about the situation in Tibet. More

DHARAMSHALA: The Canadian government has expressed concern over the wave of tragic self-immolations in Tibet and urged the Chinese government resume dialogue with the Tibetan leadership to find a mutually-agreeable solution to the issue of Tibet. More

Declaration by the High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on behalf of the European Union on Tibetan self-immolations The EU is profoundly saddened by the increasing number of Tibetans committing self-immolation, many of them young people. More

DHARAMSHALA: US Congressman from Massachusetts, Michael E. Capuano, on Sunday said the United Nations should play a key role in finding a solution to the deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet. More

DHARAMSHALA: The Human Rights Commissioner of the Federal German Government urged the Chinese government to reform its policies in Tibet and said international observers be allowed to visit Tibetan areas to assess the causes of the increasing self-immolations. More

PARIS: The upper house of the French Parliament, Sénat, on Tuesday 27 November, adopted a resolution in favour of Tibet. The resolution was proposed by the Group for Question on Tibet, an all-party parliamentary support group for Tibet in the French Senate. The Senate adopted the resolution after it was cleared by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, 22 November. More